Paid Search Director

Paid Search Director We usually respond within a month Please Note: Due to the summer holiday period, our response times may be longer than usual. We appreciate your patience and look forward to reviewing your application. The Paid Search Director is the senior local leader for paid search excellence, strategic maturity, and enterprise client impact. This role positions paid search as a strategic growth driver and it combines deep technical and tactical expertise with strong strategic and commercial leadership. You are the senior expert brought into complex, high-value situations to cement the agency's position as a business-critical partner. Acting as the local connective tissue between client teams, platform partners, commercial owners, and the global function, you play a vital role in winning new business, expanding enterprise accounts, and elevating strategic clarity. Rather than managing people, you lead direction, standards, and agency capability—raising the level of paid search across pitches, partnerships, and team confidence. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING 💼 Ensuring strategic client leadership and business impact for key enterprise clients, driving business-critical strategy and investment conversations. Connects paid search directly to commercial outcomes like growth, profitability, and market expansion. Steps into complex engagements to pivot strategies and unlocks growth through automation, data integration, and platform diversification. Identify growth opportunities across existing clients, including platform diversification, creative transformation, measurement improvements, automation, data integration, and cross-solution collaboration. Define the local strategic direction for paid search, aligning global priorities with local execution across all major search platforms.. Act as a senior thought leader and sparring partner for internal teams, identifying capability gaps and driving training initiatives all while translating global paid search direction, platform priorities, and best practices into local adoption, client impact, and team behaviour. Elevate the quality of client roadmaps, audits, and QBRs by coaching teams to effectively communicate value to senior stakeholders. Ensure cross solution/area collaboration by breaking down silos or blockers to integrate paid search into the wider client strategy and agency value proposition. Collaborate with media, data, strategy, and creative leaders to build holistic, cross-functional solutions. Solve performance limitations outside media buying by connecting paid search to adjacent capabilities like AI tech, creative production, first-party data, and advanced marketing evaluation (MMM, incrementality). Being a key platform partner by building and maintaining senior relationships with major platform partners (Google & Microsoft/Bing and other relevant media and technology partners) to keep the organization ahead of ecosystem shifts, automation, and measurement changes. Secure commercial value through exclusive betas, funding, and incentives. Act as the local bridge between partners, client teams, and global functions to translate platform innovations into meaningful client recommendations. KEY COMPETENCIES ✔️ Communication & Storytelling: Excellent presentation and communication skills, especially in senior client settings, pitches, internal leadership forums, and complex strategic discussions. Leadership Through Influence: Able to lead through expertise, trust, clarity, and influence rather than formal line management. Comfortable guiding client and media teams, commercial owners, and other cross-functional teams. Strategic Consulting: Ability to build trust with senior stakeholders by translating complex paid search dynamics into clear, commercially-aligned strategic recommendations that drive business outcomes. Senior Paid Search Expertise: Deep expertise across paid search platforms, strategy, media buying, optimisation, creative performance, measurement, and platform development. Able to confidently advise on both executional detail and senior strategic direction. Creative Excellence: Champions creative as a foundational business lever, guiding clients and teams to align creative strategy with long-term commercial growth, profitability, and business value. KEY SUCCESS METRICS🎯 Increased confidence and quality in local paid search strategy, storytelling, and senior client advisory. Stronger paid search presence in enterprise client relationships and strategic client conversations. Improved retention and reduced risk across strategically important paid search clients. Stronger local adoption of global paid search standards, frameworks, platform priorities, and best practices. Increased value generated through platform partner relationships, including betas, funding, education, incentives, and client opportunities. Improved collaboration between paid search and adjacent solution areas such as creative, data and broader media strategy. WHAT WE OFFER🌟 You can read our full offering in our handbook . An intense learning environment where you will be able to grow and develop your skills and passions alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry. A culture that is built on collaboration, trust and innovation. We value having fun together - that’s why we also have regular afterworks, team events and a yearly festival. Transparent salary setting - you can find it below the job description on our website! 30 days paid leave, flexible public holidays, parental pay, a solid pension scheme and key insurance. Our different offices also offer different perks such as massage, health care contributions, free book orders, healthy snacks & great coffee, EAP programs and your choice of PC or Mac. A diverse environment with a high focus on inclusion and belonging. We speak 46 native languages around Precis, and our internal inclusion score is 4.5 out of 5. We are committed to building an inclusive and fair workplace that attracts talent and advances its people, regardless of their background, experiences or perspectives. We believe that a diverse set of minds will continue to contribute to our innovative culture and our ability to reinvent ourselves constantly. 🇬🇧 To make things as smooth as possible, please ensure your CV is in English. We update all candidates on their applications by email. If you don't receive an email from us, please check your spam folder. Department Media Locations Stockholm Monthly salary kr66,000 - kr87,000 Employment type Full-time Role level L5